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One of the plus sides to all the NSA/GCHQ surveillance is that it should end up being an excellent resource for historians, centuries in the future. That is, a
by geographomics 12y ago
One of the plus sides to all the NSA/GCHQ surveillance is that it should end up being an excellent resource for historians, centuries in the future.
That is, assuming that they have access to the data, and novel methods of interpreting it in bulk. It'll be like a more honest, raw version of the Twitter archives.
- DanBC 12y agoGCHQ will never make this data available to researchers. Partly this is because of the way it's stored, a big FIFO cache not permanent stores; and partly because of (weirdly enough) English data protection law; and partly because they just keep stuff secret. It took them seventy years to release a couple of Turing papers. http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17771962 http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17771962